Published Work (2020–2024)

2024

McCutcheon JP, Garber AI, Spencer N, Warrem JM. How do bacterial endosymbionts work with so few genes? PLOS Biol. 22(4): e3002577. [Link to the review at PLoS Biology.] (Part of a special issue on symbiosis, summarized here.)

Spencer N, Santee M, Wetherhold A, Rio RVM. Draft genome sequence of Wigglesworthia glossinidia "palpalis gambiensis" isolate. Microbiol. Resour. Announc. e00912-23. [Link to the article at MRA.]

2023

Spencer N, Łukasik P, Meyer M, Veloso C, McCutcheon JP. No transcriptional compensation for extreme gene dosage imbalance in fragmented endosymbionts of cicadas. Genome Biol. Evol. 15(6), evad100. [Link to the article at GBE.] (Honorable Mention for GBE Best Student Paper 2023.)

2021

Medina Munoz M, Brenner C, Richmond D, Spencer N, Rio RVM. The holobiont transcriptome of teneral tsetse fly species of varying vector competence. BMC Genomics. 22(1), 400. [Link to the article at BMC Genomics.]

2020

Medina Munoz M, Spencer N, Enomoto S, Dale C, Rio RVM. Quorum sensing sets the stage for the establishment and vertical transmission of Sodalis praecaptivus in tsetse flies. PLOS Genet. 16, e1008992. [Link to the article at PLoS Genetics.]